Tom Holland

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195 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

It's a city of brotherly love. voice-verified

Surely there'll be no slaves there. voice-verified

And he discovers slavery and is appalled by it. voice-verified

And he becomes the first kind of activist, really. voice-verified

He does all these stunts where he goes to the Quaker meeting house and he pulls out a Bible saying, voice-verified

And he's put purple juice in it and he stabs it with a sword and all this purple juice comes out looking like blood. voice-verified

And he retires to a cave and leads this incredibly effective campaign against slavery, which ends up shaming the Quakers into effectively becoming abolitionists. voice-verified

And this in turn is an influence on Benjamin Franklin. voice-verified

And I think it's one of the most admirable things about Franklin and about the American Revolution is that voice-verified

Lots of the founding fathers are prepared to wrestle with these issues. voice-verified

It's not like we have just discovered them ourselves. voice-verified

They do wrestle with them, and they come to different solutions, perhaps. voice-verified

But Franklin is an example of someone who, by the end of his life, the final months of his life, he is devoted to opposing slavery. voice-verified

This man who had thought to run an advert in the British press requesting the return of a slave, and he presents a petition to Congress saying, please get rid of this, it's terrible. voice-verified

And in his final piece of published writing, he pretends to be a Muslim advisor in the Barbary States. voice-verified

And he says, it would be ridiculous for us to free these Christian slaves. voice-verified

These Christian slaves would be helpless without their servitude. voice-verified

You know, they wouldn't possibly survive. voice-verified

And he's parodying the language that he himself had earlier used to justify slavery. voice-verified

So I think that voice-verified

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